Ndjaka Mtsetwene, MA, (Universität Luzern) präsentiert ihre Forschungsergebnisse im Rahmen des Kolloquiums "Diversity Studies".

In this talk, I will discuss the first stage of my doctoral research working with transcripts and field notes compiled by Patrick Harries and students of history at the University of Cape Town in apartheid South Africa located at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. This collection features a compilation of testimonials from people resettled into the former apartheid Homeland Gazankulu, that was created through the transfer of Swiss-mission owned Farms to the Tsonga Territorial Authority. The intention of this research stage is to determine the distribution of interviews and the precise landscapes in which they were undertaken. The classification of interviews and patterns of resettlement according to landscape types (woodlands, wetlands, drylands, grassland, forests, mountain areas) is part of a broader step in evaluating how different understanding of the uses and meaning of nature came to a head between missionaries, chiefs, `native` administrators`, farmers, nature conservationists and local communities living in the region. I will therefore report on the necessity for a cultural geographic approach to apartheid-era forced resettlements and the suitability of this archive to this particular analysis.

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